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Welfare State and Welfare Society

Government and Opposition, 1985
‘CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?’, THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER was reported to have replied to a question concerning the alleged crisis in sterling. In the case of the welfare state it might seem that the appropriate response would be ‘Which crisis? ’ since there are several on the menu - fiscal crisis, legitimacy crisis, crisis of ungovernability .
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America's Emphasis on Welfare: Is It Children's Welfare or Corporate Welfare?

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, 2003
States are facing a collective budget shortfall of dollar 40 billion and may have to cut millions from programs that serve children and families. The 2004 proposal exacerbates the state fiscal crisis. Because of linkages between federal and state taxes, federal tax cuts have added to the loss of state revenue coming into states to assist with programs.
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Welfare, Populism and Welfare Chauvinism

2019
In the wake of the financial crisis, and with increasing numbers of people in precarious and low paid jobs, there has been a surprising surge of support for populist right-wing political parties who often promote an anti-welfare message. Tougher approaches and welfare chauvinism is on the agenda in many countries, with policies which reduce the welfare
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Welfare and the Welfare State

2019
The welfare state is still very much central in people’s everyday lives. The welfare state is at the same time contested and debated, and has often been argued to be in a crisis not only in the wake of the financial crisis. Welfare and welfare states used to be a national issue and prerogative.
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Welfare State Versus Welfare Society?

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 1985
ABSTRACT The welfare state is not just a system of personal insurance but an expression of community, of concern for our fellows. It places some things beyond the question of purchasing power. Yet its structures are often criticised as subverting personal and social cares and responsibilities. Arguably there is a ‘dialectic of self-destruction’ here, a
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Welfare and child welfare collaboration

2008
Within departments of social services, child welfare and income assistance programs are typically separate administrative units. Coordinating services for dual-system families across these program areas has been encouraged in the wake of welfare reform and its more stringent time frames in combination with child welfare legislation that places time ...
Tungate, Susan L., Morgan, George A., Buchan, Victoria   +2 more
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Introduction: The Welfare Economics of the Welfare State

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1995
Outsiders to economics might be forgiven for thinking that welfare economics provides the theoretical underpinnings for the welfare state. But although the language is suggestive, the link between theoretical welfare economics and policy recommendations concerning the role of the public sector, the optimal degree of redistribution and social insurance,
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Welfare States

2019
Contains fulltext : 209551pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)
Woods, D.R., Schmid, J.
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The problem of welfare: Is there a welfare civilization?

World Futures, 1990
Abstract Welfare policy is at present increasingly tied both to market forces and to primary social networks. This process splits society into two camps. One‐fifth of the population is segregated from the rest in its dependence on the welfare system, which is in turn dependent on a diminishing portion of the economy and required to rationalize itself ...
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Welfare economics

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This paper presents the Paretian Watershed and the fundamental theorems of welfare economics. It distinguishes the British approach (à la Kaldor-Hicks) from the American approach (à la Bergson-Samuelson) to new welfare economics. It develops the more recent domains of happiness economics, the comparative approach by Amartya Sen, and the theory of fair ...
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